Taste Test Tuesday: Trader Giotto's Roasted Vegetable Multi-Grain Lasagna
When I saw this 32-ounce frozen lasagna during my last trip to Trader Joe's selling for around $8, my first thought was "WOW! This a much better deal than those food assembly businesses where each entree is 18 to 30 dollars a pop and you are still having to measure everything and follow their assembly directions."
So I gave this lasagna a whirl today and I knew going in that it used multi-grain pasta and I knew that it featured roasted vegetables and no meat whatsoever. I have come to like higher fiber pasta so that wasn't a problem and it was super easy to heat up (using the microwave instructions), and it tasted pretty good too. What WAS a problem was that the picture on the box showed the lasagna with a beautiful white blanket of melted mozzarella cheese on top, so much so that I was salivating while it was in the microwave. But the lasagna I tasted didn't look anything like that.
Would I buy it again?
Definitely, but next time I'm adding my own blanket of shredded mozzarella on top before I heat it up, thank you very much! And one container will serve 4 (as it states on the package) but that's if each person is also being served something on the side (maybe a salad or fruit and a piece of bread perhaps?)
The first six ingredients:
Fire-roasted tomatoes, fresh multi-grain lasagna noodles, ricotta cheese,
mozzarella cheese, roasted zucchini, broccoli.
HARD TO ARGUE WITH THESE 6 INGREDIENTS!
Nutrition Facts per serving:
(4 per container)
260 calories, 12 g protein, 35 g carbohydrate, 9 g fat, 2.5 g saturated fat,
20 mg cholesterol, 6 g fiber, 440 mg sodium. 50% Daily Value for vitamin A,
100% vitamin C, 15% calcium, and 15% Iron.
~~Elaine
Related Topics: Beef & Bean Mexican Lasagna Recipe, Frozen Dinners to the Rescue
Technorati Tags: traderjoes, lasagna, vegetarianlasagna
So I gave this lasagna a whirl today and I knew going in that it used multi-grain pasta and I knew that it featured roasted vegetables and no meat whatsoever. I have come to like higher fiber pasta so that wasn't a problem and it was super easy to heat up (using the microwave instructions), and it tasted pretty good too. What WAS a problem was that the picture on the box showed the lasagna with a beautiful white blanket of melted mozzarella cheese on top, so much so that I was salivating while it was in the microwave. But the lasagna I tasted didn't look anything like that.
Would I buy it again?
Definitely, but next time I'm adding my own blanket of shredded mozzarella on top before I heat it up, thank you very much! And one container will serve 4 (as it states on the package) but that's if each person is also being served something on the side (maybe a salad or fruit and a piece of bread perhaps?)
The first six ingredients:
Fire-roasted tomatoes, fresh multi-grain lasagna noodles, ricotta cheese,
mozzarella cheese, roasted zucchini, broccoli.
HARD TO ARGUE WITH THESE 6 INGREDIENTS!
Nutrition Facts per serving:
(4 per container)
260 calories, 12 g protein, 35 g carbohydrate, 9 g fat, 2.5 g saturated fat,
20 mg cholesterol, 6 g fiber, 440 mg sodium. 50% Daily Value for vitamin A,
100% vitamin C, 15% calcium, and 15% Iron.
~~Elaine
Related Topics: Beef & Bean Mexican Lasagna Recipe, Frozen Dinners to the Rescue
Technorati Tags: traderjoes, lasagna, vegetarianlasagna
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